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On the weekend if 7th & 8th June 2008 the village of Sainte Maure (37 Indre-et-Loire, Centre) celebrates the local goat’s cheese with a 2 day festival. with plenty of opportunit for eating, drinking, dancing and music - learn more about this cheese and about the “guest” Cheese Region which is the Basque country (Pays Basque).

The cheese is an aged Goats Cheese - quite different to the fresh goats milk cheeses you normally see. It is cylindrical in shape, often covered with ash and with a straw running through the middle, which helps it to mature. It has Appellation Controllee (AOC) status which means that only cheese from this areas can be so called, and there are strict rules on its content and making.

According to the Dorling Kindersley guide to French Cheeses (Eyewitness Companions) this cheese is “mature, balanced, round with salt sourness and an aroma of walnut”

For more info see www.sainte-maure-de-touraine.fr/